After a year on an ice flow eating seals and dogs, and bunking up with unwashed hairy arsed seamen, Kellie Malone would have been a vision of feminine loveliness floating slyth-like across the endless white nothingness which consumed my every waking thought and vision. Especially if she had a doubledecker in her pocket. Or a crunchie.
Hang on a minute ... did I hear once that Shackleton was rescued by some blokes from Hull who dynamited the ice around Shackleton's ship but Shackleton kept schtum about it not wanting the great and the good to know what a liability and tosser he was for constantly getting into scrapes and screwing up ... apparently, it only became widely known much later that Shackleton's life was saved by ordinary, brave sailors from Hull who, of course, never got any credit for risking their arses to get Shackleton out of his ice bound mess?
Aye, spot on. Albert Holness and William Stephenson, the Endurance's firemen. ****ing heroes. And how are they commemorated in Hull?
Kellies got skinny jeans on and has had a nose job. She's talking about Frank in the past tense. I'm confused. Really confused.
Seriously, don't know...but would like to...but the answer is probably not a good one. Don't tell me they are totally ignored in Hull, and pretty much everywhere else ?
To the best of my knowledge neither man is commemorated in their home city but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong. Holness was actually known by his middle name, Ernie. He lived in Flinton Street and had 2 daughters and a son. He died in 1927, another Hull life lost at sea when washed overboard off a North Sea trawler. Stephenson was born in Sculcoates, went back to the trawlers on returning and died in 1953, still living in Hull. Neither were awarded the Polar medal, unlike the majority of the Endurance's crew. Quite why is shrouded in mystery.
Bit weird this been in the Mail thought you may like to see it Ernie. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...f-man-turned/story-22969704-detail/story.html
Thanks Chazz. I'd forgotten that the main money man of the Discovery trip was from Hull. The Discovery itself was built in Dundee, were it is now - well worth a visit, and was basically a long haul whaler, kitted out as a research ship. Apparently it sailed like a brick. Looking forward to reading the new biography. Complete wastral indeed.
